Grammar - Cloze Test
Exam Duration: 45 Mins Total Questions : 30
In the passage some of the words have been left out.First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about.Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.
Mass communication is the delivery of news, ideas and entertainment to thousands or millions of People simultaneously; it is a force with incalculable impact on today's world. The success of mass comm-unication rests upon the skills of the communicator to stimulate the recipient's thinking, to stir emotions. to encourage him or her to ..... . Mass communication is the one-to-one impact of one human intelligence upon another carried on thousand fold simultaneously among Indlviduals who have no direct personal contact.
- (a)
direction
- (b)
function
- (c)
action
- (d)
mission
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Auctions are public sale of goods. conducted by an approved auctioneer. He encourages buyers to bid higher prices and finally names the .......... bidder as the buyer of the goods. This is called 'knocking down' the goods, for when the bidding ends the auctioneer bangs. a small hammer on a table in front of him.
- (a)
smartest
- (b)
highest
- (c)
biggest
- (d)
strongest
In the passages, some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each question out of the four alternative and fill in the blanks
A healthy body is necessary for the development of the intellect and wisdom. Every human being should exercise daily to maintain good health. Physical exercise ............ physical fitness. It makes human beings mentally alert physical exercise is required to digest food properly.
- (a)
ensuing
- (b)
entangles
- (c)
ensures
- (d)
ensnares
In the passage some of the words have been left out.First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about.Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.
Civilization. like empires, fall, not so much because of strength of the enemy outside, as through the weakness and disease within, Rome fell not because of the Romans, they merely knocked down something that was already dead. The heart of Rome had ceased beating when the arms and legs were cut ..... . We see something of this spectacle in India and China and in the case of the Arabs. The downfall of Arabian civilization was sudden even as their rise had been. In India and China the process is long drawn out and it is not easy to spot it.
- (a)
down
- (b)
off
- (c)
up
- (d)
no word
In the passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand and what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.
Indu 'didda' loved to wear saris. Her private collections, which Sonia inherited, were remarkable for not only good taste, but also the variety of weaves and traditional representations. I do not think any other public figure in the first five decades after independence was so keen to acquire saris of distinct weave as 'didda' did......... you noticed this fact when meeting her, you not only joined her circle of knowledgeable persons on traditional textiles but also got a chance to bring her attention to the cause you were espousing. Now this was very rare.
- (a)
when
- (b)
Also
- (c)
If
- (d)
But
In the questions. in the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer to each question out of the four alternatives and fill in the blanks.
In Britain. the weather is very varied. People never know how it will be like the next day. The summer is warmer than the winter but even in summer the average temperature is only 16°C. Sometimes the sun keeps shining but at other times the sky is covered with clouds and it starts raining. In winter it is sometimes terribly ............ especially in the north to the country. The temperature falls below 0oC and there is often snow and ice.
- (a)
cooler
- (b)
cooled
- (c)
chilled
- (d)
chill
In the passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand and what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.
Indu 'didda' loved to wear saris. Her private collections, which Sonia inherited, were remarkable for not only good taste, but also the variety of weaves and traditional representations. I do not think any other public figure in the first five decades after independence was so keen to acquire saris of distinct weave as 'didda' did. if you noticed this fact when meeting her, you not only joined her circle of knowledgeable persons on traditional textiles but also got a chance to bring her....... to the cause you were espousing. Now this was very rare.
- (a)
notice
- (b)
attention
- (c)
observation
- (d)
concern
The passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.
Hawthorne had not expected this sudden dismissal. He had thought they would scold him as usual, but now he had no job. What is he to tell Sophia? Sophia is Hawthorne's wife. He had not told her ............ about his troubles at the office. How was he going to support her and himself from now on? He walked home slowly. When his wife saw him, he looked miserable.
- (a)
anything
- (b)
something
- (c)
each thing
- (d)
nothing
The questions, you have following two brief passages with 10 questions in passage - I and 5 questions in passage - II. Read the passages carefully and fill in the blanks with suitable words out of the four alternatives given.
In Buddha's days rough rectangular coins were issued by various economic and political authorities. But it was not until the fourth century before Christ that India arrived at a coinage guaranteed by the state. Sher Shah issued well-designed pieces of copper, silver and gold. In medieval India the growth of industry and commerce was impeded by a religious antipathy to the taking of interest. The Indians neither put out money at usury nor knew how to borrow. When the Hindu could not invest his savings in his own economic enterprises he preferred to hoard them, or to buy jewellery as conveniently hoardable wealth. Perhaps this failure to develop a facile credit system aided the industrial revolution to establish the European domination of Asia. Slowly, however despite the ....... of the Brahmans, money-lending grew.
- (a)
affability
- (b)
oppression
- (c)
hostility
- (d)
compassion
In the passage some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer to each question out of the four alternatives and fill in the blanks.
Although we can observe the heavenly bodies of our solar system through a telescope, it is only astronomers who can views the depths of outer space. It is reported that they have seen stun galaxies, stars taking birth and dying, and 'black holes'. They say that the deeper they look ......the universe, the more they know how the universe originated.
- (a)
at
- (b)
on
- (c)
through
- (d)
into
The questions, you have following two brief passages with 10 questions in passage - I and 5 questions in passage - II. Read the passages carefully and fill up the blanks with suitable words out of the four alternatives given.
"My new machine is so strong that it will even suck out ground-in dust and dirt like this". As he spoke, he used his heel to press the soot and dust into the carpet.
The old lady ...... again, but without much success as the young man had quickly gone out of the front door.
A few minutes later, he reappeared with a very modern-looking vacuum cleaner. 'Now, where can I plug this in ?' he asked.
"Probably the next village, about ten miles away", replied the old lady. "The electricity supply hasn't reached here yet".
- (a)
questioned
- (b)
spoke
- (c)
tried
- (d)
stated
In the passage, some of the words have been left out. First of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.
The Solar System has been a complicated wonder for the astronomers. This is a question to which we may never have the exact answer. Man has wondered about the age of the Earth since ancient times. There were all kinds of stories that seemed to have the answer. But man could not begin to think about the question scientifically until about 400 years ago, when it was proved that the Earth revolved round the Sun and the Earth was a ............. of our Solar System, then scientists knew where to begin.
- (a)
part
- (b)
division
- (c)
opening
- (d)
centre
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Whenever I gaze at the moon, my heart fills with pleasure. I wish I had wings to fly up to the moon. I know if I could grow up to become an astronaut. I would be able to go to the moon. Special equipment and a special training are required to go to the moon. I would have to wear a space-suit along with a gas-mask for ...............My space shuttle would be equipped with sensitive cameras and other scientific gadgets.
- (a)
breadth
- (b)
breathing
- (c)
bathing
- (d)
breathe
In the passage some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given and indicate the correct alternative.
It is summed up in a single word - Man. Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove man from the scene and the root cause of hunger and work is abolished forever.
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot ..... fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare Minimum that will prevent them from Striving and the rest he keeps for himself.
- (a)
slow
- (b)
fast
- (c)
idle
- (d)
dull
The passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.
When we visited the volcano it was in a state of eruption. We stood near tip of the summit on an irregular plane. It was heaped with stones and cinders and curving rocks which had been regularly flung out from the volcano.
During the volcanic eruption, large quantities of rocks and stones were hurled out from the summit in terrible ........... From the summit volumes of smoke and fountains of liquid fire oozed forth continuously. The smoke now white, now impenetrably black was accompanied by a deep fiery roar. Stones poured down and the molten lava moved on with a horrible sound.
- (a)
Calm
- (b)
Confusion
- (c)
Horror
- (d)
Speed
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How the domestication of animals began is not known. Perhaps, there were large number of animals in areas near water where men also were ........... Here man could observe the animals and study their habits, and this knowledge must have, enabled him to tame them. It was again, easy for agricultural people to domesticate animals and feed them on the husks of the grain that were left after threshing. In any event, sheep and goats, pigs and cattle and later horses and asses were tamed and kept in pens. Man, thus, obtained food from the soil and also from animals. In the pens. the animals could be observed even more closely. Calves suckling milk must have given man the idea that he too could get food other than meat from cows and goats. This practice which combines agriculture with the raising of animals is known as mixed farming. Animals, however, were chiefly used to provide meat and milk. they were yet to be used as beasts of burden or to draw the plough.
- (a)
amassed
- (b)
concentrated
- (c)
strengthened
- (d)
intensified
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Then he spent the next two hours finding different ways to thank me: whining, burying his wet head in my lap, pawing at my legs, .......... to my every look or movement. Every time, I looked up from my work, his deep brown eyes were on me and his tail thumped on the floor.So, that night in 1967, Booto, the wild dog from the street came into my lonely life.
- (a)
reacting
- (b)
cacthing
- (c)
answering
- (d)
jumping
In the passage, some of the words have been left out. First of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.
Martin Luther King, Jr., was born Michale Luther King, Jr., but his grandfather had his name given to Martin. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia. Finishing from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B.A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. ................. a fellowship won at Ebenezer he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments.
- (a)
From
- (b)
By
- (c)
With
- (d)
Through
In the questions the following passage some ofthe words have been leftout. Readthe passage carefullyand choose the correct answer to each question out of the four alternatives and fill in the blanks.
Ateam of Indian engineers has shown that digital photographs ofthe hand may Reveal cholesterol levels in the body and serve as an early warning signal of poor lipid health without a standard blood test.
Researchers believe the programme may be ........in the future and loaded into mobile phones to enable it to analyse digital images ofthe hand captured in the camera on a mobilephone.
- (a)
Retracted
- (b)
Refined
- (c)
Recorded
- (d)
Resolved
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When I go into a stranger's library I look a round the bookshelves. This is to know the type of person he is and I feel that I know the key to his mind. A house without books is a ............. house, no matter how rich the carpets are. These only tell you whether he has a lot of money, but the books tell you whether he has a mind as well.It is not a issue of money, that we do not buy books.
- (a)
unlucky
- (b)
bad
- (c)
characterless
- (d)
bleak
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No child is a spoilt child by birth. It is the family conditions and circumstances under which a child grows up that spoil him. It is common experience that a much.wanted child or the only child of his parents is more prone to ............... spoilt.Such a child becomes arrogant and insolent because of the overindulgence and overprotection of the parents. Sometimes it is seen that a neglected child also tends to become a nuisance.
- (a)
become
- (b)
becoming
- (c)
becomes
- (d)
became
The two questions, you have following two brief passages with 10 questions in passage - I and 5 questions in passage - II. Read the passages carefully and fill in the blanks with suitable words out of the four alternatives given.
It seems there was no Marina beach during the 1700·s. The beach developed only after the construction of the Madras harbour in the ....... century. It should be remembered that any kind of developmental activity along the coast will have an impact on the adjoining regions.
- (a)
tenth
- (b)
nineteenth
- (c)
fifteenth
- (d)
sixth
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Rajan is a salesman. He goes from door to door selling vacuum cleaners. On his first day of work, the decided to sell his goods by knocking on the doors of a private housing estate. "My first customer ." he thought as he pressed the doorbell of the first house. Amiddle-aged woman with curlers in her hair opened the door. Rajan began to explain who he was and the product he was selling. The next minute, the door was.................. shut. "Not interested I" John heard her shout behind the closed door.
- (a)
slammmed
- (b)
damned
- (c)
tamed
- (d)
crammed
In the following passage. some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.
A man can be physically confined within stone walls and iron bars. His freedom of movement and action may thus be _____. But his mind and spirit will still remain free. His hopes and attributes. ideals and ambitions will still remain with him. no tyranny or oppression can intimidate the lover of liberty. The cruelty of the British, only. increased the zeal and determination of the freedom fighters. No prison. no oppression can ever lower the invincible spirit of man.
- (a)
rejected
- (b)
adjusted
- (c)
prevented
- (d)
restricted
In the passage, some of the words have been left out. First of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.
Contrary to the common belief, the ostrich does not bury its head in the sand to avoid danger. An ostrich can run at a speed of forty - five miles ............... hour. kick powerfully and peck aggressively with its beak. As the largest and fastest bird in the world. It doesn't need to bury its head.
- (a)
one
- (b)
per
- (c)
a
- (d)
every
In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passageover and try to understand what it is about. Then fillin the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.
The true elixir of life near to our hands is the commonest of all liquids. plain water. It has played a role of vast significance in shaping thecourse ofearth's history and countinues to play the leading role in the .............. of life on the surface of our planet . Indeed. there is nothing here which adds so much to the beauty of the humanbeings as water. be it just a little stream trickling over the rocks or a huge pond by the way side where animals quench their thirst.
- (a)
movement
- (b)
drama
- (c)
scene
- (d)
future
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Besides looking after the health aspect of the team, Dr.Alka also attended to a few emergency cases that included a suspected spinal injury due to a fall from an oil tanker. She herself had a close Brush with death when she was taking pictures of the ........... atop a German ship. A blizzard could have swept her away had the radio officer not pulled her inside a room. Also being the only woman in a 24-member team. she missed the company of women.
- (a)
scenic
- (b)
scenery
- (c)
scenario
- (d)
seen
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Childhood is a time when there are camp responsibilities to make life difficult.If a child has good parents, he is fed. looked after and loved. whatever he may do. It is improbable that he will ever again in his life be given so much without having to do anything in return. In addition. life is always ................ new things to the child. A child finds pleasure in playing in the rain or in the snow. His first visit to the seaside is a marvelous adventure. But a child has his pains; he is not so free to do as he wishes; he is continually being told not to do things or is being punished. His life is therefore not perfectly happy.
- (a)
donating
- (b)
diplaying
- (c)
granting
- (d)
presenting
In the passage, some of the words have been left out. First of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.
Almost every full moon night, the officials in Andaman and Nicobar Islands take part in a cautious ritual. The tribesmen watch from a safe distance as the officials approach the island in a boat carrying gifts for them. The Islanders come forward hesitantly only after the officials have dumped the coconuts brought for them onto the beach and begin sailing away from their small island. On some nights the tribals even muster up enough courage to swim upto a few feet away from the boat. The officials maintain that they do not want to interfere with the way of life of the tribals. The islanders .............. heavily on the mainland for most goods.
- (a)
spy
- (b)
rely
- (c)
occupy
- (d)
reply
In the passage, some of the words have been left out. First of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.
Experts are beginning to suspect that one of the major causes of crime in modern cities is the actual design of the city. Oscar Newman. a professor of architecture, in his book titled "Defensible Space" has ........................ the results of his research on this question. The effect of environment on crime is twofold. Prof. Newman's research shows that some buildings may encourage people not only to interfere but to allow crimes to happen. Crowded apartments in a huge block bring people physically together but Isolate them mentally. People living in what is accidentally one building with a common entry fell isolated within their own apartments.
They are unconcerned with their neighbours. Some years ago, a girl was stabbed to death over a period of half an hour, while hundreds of people living in the block watched without interfering, without even calling the police. The other obvious effect of the design of buildings is that it affords room for crimes. Hidden nooks and comers. spaces between buildings out of sight are convenient spots where crimes can be committed without the fear of detection.
- (a)
published
- (b)
printed
- (c)
predicted
- (d)
pasted